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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

EFFECT OF SEED HARDENING AND PELLETING ON SEED QUALITY IN RAGI

Volume : 85
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 583 - 585
Published: July 01, 2023
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Abstract


Seeds of ragi hardened with chemicals like Kel, CaCl, and acqueous leaf extracts like Prosopis and Pungam each at one per cent concentration as well as their combination followed by pelleting with pungam leaf powder showed that seeds hardened with Kel (1%) followed by pelleting with pungam leaf powder (60 g kg) recorded higher germination and seedling vigour characters over control.

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583 - 585
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Ragi Seed hardening Seed pelleting Leaf powder Germination Vigour
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